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You really are completely out of touch. many tens of millions will watch the final.

I really don't care about soccer and I have seen one match in my entire life (went to a San Jose Earthquake match) up until this WC. I have watched almost every match and will be watching the 3rd place match and final.

No, Argentina was founded by a peace-loving race of Polynesians named the Ar-gu-na-wackas in 1912. They lived in harmony with mother nature until the Romanians colonized it in 1973 looking for silver and track pants- the ones with the stripes down the sides.

This led to the Prussian-Anglo alliance with Chile, and the dumping of smallpox-laden tupperware in the 1980's. This, sadly, killed off most of the remaining Ar-gu-na-wackas. The resulting influx of old Nazi's and Armenian women named "Tina" merged with the remaining population creating hybrid brown/yellow skinned people nicknamed 'Ar-gu-Tinas.'

I can't tell if you're just throwing random shit at the wall so that something will eventually end up being historically accurate. The Portuguese and Spanish fought over Argentina.

Then again, maybe I missed the class on The Great Argentinian and Italian Mixup.

He is correct. Brazil is heavily German descent and Argentina is heavily Italian descent. This century 1/2 the Argentine population has been identified as Italian descent. Italians were the predominant immigrants from 1850-1950 and 1980-2000. Messi, manu ginobli, gabriella sabatini, and the Pope are all Italian Argentine as well. From wiki so you know it's true

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An*Italian Argentine*(Spanish*and*Italian:*italo-argentino) is a person born inArgentina*of*Italian*descent or an*Italy-born person who resides in Argentina. It is estimated up to 24 million Argentines have some degree of Italian descent (up to 60% of the total population), making it the largest ethnic group in the country.[unreliable source?][1]*Italians began arriving in Argentina in great numbers from 1857 to 1940, totaling 44.9% of the entire immigrant population; more than from any other country (including Spain at 31.5%), and this migratory flow continued to the early 1950s, with Italy also having the most emigrants to Argentina for the decades 1980–2000. Because of this, Italian descent is at least 60% of the population, almost 25 million.[unreliable source?][1]

In 1996, the Italian Argentines were 15.88 million[2]*when Argentina’s population was about 34.5 million, meaning that they were 46% of the Argentine population.

Italian settlement in Argentina, along with*Spanish*settlement, formed the backbone of today's*Argentine*society. Argentine culture has significant connections to Italian culture in terms of language, customs and traditions.[3]

An interesting fact is that Spains first defeat in the Colonies came under San Martin, an Argentine. Spaniards came to Argentina to settle, not to conquer, once they saw the Spanish army destroying everything in South America, San Martin decided to get an army going, he went to the Andes of Peru and beat the Spaniards, after that, Central Americans and Mexicans did the same thing too.

Argies are "proud" to be Europeans but they always "love" beating Spain and specially England because of the war they had over the Malvinas.